Many actual property brokers have come to concern an look on Zillow Gone Wild, a social media juggernaut that has captured the eye of hundreds of thousands of followers who gawk on the baffling structure, zany landscaping and weird decor of Zillow’s most unusual listings. However final week, the platform bestowed California-based actual property agent Sarah Rogers with a really uncommon present — the uncommon distinction of itemizing the “excellent trendy” dwelling.
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Many actual property brokers have come to concern an look on Zillow Gone Wild, a social media juggernaut that has captured the eye of hundreds of thousands of followers who gawk on the baffling structure, zany landscaping and weird decor of Zillow’s most unusual listings.
However final week, the account bestowed The Company Estates Division Government Director Sarah Rogers with a really uncommon present — the uncommon distinction of itemizing the “excellent trendy” dwelling.
“I hold getting an increasing number of social media consideration from brokers and structure aficionados from sort of a variety of areas,” Rogers stated of the put up that at present has 10K likes, 2.8K feedback and a couple of.1K shares on Fb alone. “We’ve definitely gotten loads of consideration from folks throughout the Los Angeles Basin. It has positively helped [to be on Zillow Gone Wild].”
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Fb customers famous the five-bedroom, five-bathroom $4.48M San Gabriel Valley property seems prefer it was ripped out of a film, with its hanging wooden spiral staircase, pristine classic MCM furnishings and decor and ceiling-to-floor home windows that present a one-of-a-kind view of the San Gabriel Mountains and Downtown Los Angeles.
The house additionally has an govt workplace, wine room, steam and sauna room with a jet tub and a sunken household room — a function that’s slowly coming again into vogue after its heyday within the Nineteen Seventies.
“This home is beautiful!” a commenter stated. “I actually love the design and all of the wooden. It’s definitely not current-day trendy however I really like that. Seems like a peaceable spot in a loopy busy metropolis.”
“Each photograph saved getting higher,” added one other. “If I lived within the space and had the finances, I’d be scrambling to make this occur. Gorgeous!”
Though some ZGW followers didn’t just like the “overly monochromatic” colour palette, it didn’t cease them from appreciating the easy fantastic thing about the itemizing in distinction to regular ZGW fare, which incorporates Freddy Kreuger-themed kitchens, basement jail cells and fully-carpeted bogs.
“As a result of I’m used to Zillow Gone Wild posts, I saved ready for the home to thoroughly go off the rails,” a commenter stated. “On this case, it didn’t! I’m unsure what to assume…”
Added one other, “That is Zillow gone tasteful. I like the adorning [and] inside design. It’s excellent.”
Over on Instagram, Compass actual property agent Samantha Rehr stoked envy when she confirmed the home is simply as excellent in individual as it’s within the itemizing pictures.
“I used to be capable of see this masterpiece in individual this weekend — the photographs don’t even do it justice,” she stated. “Each inch of this home is jaw-dropping and large with rigorously designed built-in items in all places you look. I’ve a pair extra footage on my grid of the sauna, the workplace and a sunken card desk.”
Rogers stated the 48-year-old house is the work of famous architect John Andre Gougeon, who designed a number of SoCal landmarks, together with the Pasadena Presbyterian Church, Park Marino Convalescent Middle and the Herrick Interfaith Middle at Occidental Faculty.
“I feel it begins with having the narrative, the story of the property,” she stated. “It has been all about understanding what we’re promoting and having every part concerning the advertising and the private presentation of the house be in step with what the architect would have envisioned.”
“So we eliminated window coverings as a result of frankly, they’re not essentially wanted as a result of their property is so personal. You don’t see different properties and nobody seems at you both,” she stated. “This house is all about bringing the outside in and having views all completely different sorts of views.”
One other Gougeon creation was offered in 2017 for $880,000. The Glendora house is roughly 4,000 sq. ft smaller than Rogers’ San Gabriel Valley itemizing; nonetheless, it nonetheless has lots of the similar options that made Gougeon and his up to date, Frank Lloyd Wright, well-known. If offered at present, Redfin stated it could be value $1.29M — a 46.5 p.c enhance in worth.
Rogers stated she expects the itemizing to go below escrow within the coming week and is hopeful concerning the dwelling’s continued position in Los Angeles architectural actual property historical past.
“It’s a bit of early but for me to foretell what number of [offers we’ll get] or what are [offers] going to say as a result of they don’t have any in hand, however simply the response has been met with such enthusiasm,” she stated. “One [broker] specifically commented that that is the perfect trendy home that he has ever seen and his firm focuses on architectural actual property, in order that was fairly a praise.”
“I hope the subsequent proprietor will honor the house’s structure,” she added. “Not like some homes which have actually actually modified from the unique [design], it is a nice instance of preservation.”
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